The Great Out Doors

Over the weekend we went up to greens peak to camp. I love this time of year when all the leaves change colors! We enjoyed all the normal camp stuff. Cobbler, great food, four wheeler rides, camp smoke, shooting guns, good visits, card games(yes I married into a family that cheats at cards more than I do:-)) and my new favorite thing, squirrel hunting( who knew that it could be so fun!) and lots of relaxing! Devin and I missed place the keys to our camper and spent a few hours looking for them and a drive back up to the top of greens peak to make sure they didn't get kicked out! After all the searching we found them on the hook in the trailer where they belonged!!! Conner's little coat was hiding them haha gotta love that! Then we had a blow out on our trailer on the way home. But the boys had it fixed in no time. Thanks every body for the fun!

The leaves starting to turn red! This picture is for Grandma and Grandpa West

Shooting Clay's AR something, he thinks everyone needs one for home land security


My beautiful sister in laws

Conner already has such a mind of his own

On Top of Greens Peak

Kids are never to old to get a good punch to the face by their father

This is Conner's favorite thing

We love shooting together

Fixing the Tire on the side of the road Devin has it figured out, he's letting his dad do all the work while he supervises!

One more thing, I know this post is getting so long but hey when you only post once a month... Conner had his first ER visit a couple of Sundays ago. I was out in the yard feeding the fish and all of a sudden he starts crying. When I got over to him blood was coming out of his toe and he had a huge blood blister on the bottom of his toe. Devin was already over in the ER so I drove the 1000 feet to the hospital to let Dev look at it. Needless to say him and all the nursers thought he needed to be checked out. I was think "I am not taking Conner to the ER for a blood blister" so I started to leave and Devin was standing at the the glass doors with disgusted look on his face, so I thought well I'll just call Conner's pediatrician. Needless to say the Doc thought I should take him in for xrays and stuff. So I unbuckled Conner and took him in. Devin was really getting upset with me at this point I believe he said something like this, "oh you'll bring him in when the Doc tells you to but you wont when I do" haha anyways Conner had xrays and they decided that he may have a fracture on his toe but it was to swollen to see, his growth plates where shifted, his big toe nail may fall off and the blood blister on the bottom of his toe will heal on its own. So they taped his little toes up sent us with some antibiotics and home we came. By that night he was walking and jumping around like normal! Thank heavens!

The Damage

Conner was taking really good care in the hospital be all the ER staff! Especially this one

Happy 25th Devin

Devin had his 25th Birthday last week. We had a BBQ at our house with some friends and family with a ton of food! Devins big gift this year was a .40 pistol, (I think that's what its called:)) Devin's parents were bringing it to the party, so the only present that I had at our house for him was a box of bullets and of course I couldn't let him open those until he got the gun. Needless to say it drove him nuts all day not to be able to open "his" birthday gift!



Happy Birthday Devin!!

Also we are still working on the backyard the never ending project. But our pond is done!!!!! YEAH, We have the plants planted all the rocks around the pond, the waterfall going and the fish in! For some reason the little fish keep dieing. The grass has some bare spots but its coming in and we couldn't be more excited!!!!

August is Gone

I can't believe that summer is already over. I love the long day hot days and all the outdoor fun, Here are some pictures of our August days. We got Conners one year pictures, he was so tired and grumpy but some of them did turn out cute! We took another trip down to Mexico. The water was perfect! We spent the days on the beach playing in the sand and water, riding jets skies, making cobbler and letting off fire works and just relaxing. I love Mexico!
Conner found that he loves corn on the cob. Its really entertaining to watch him eat it. And last but not least we are still working on the back yard, we got the pond and the waterfall in and the grass planted. I can't believe how fast its growing it already ready to be mowed! We are really going to enjoy our backyard next summer! Hope everyone else had a great summer!

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Professional Fire Fighter or Pyro

Ok so we have been working on our back yard all summer. We finally put up our privacy fence, put in the sprinkler system, planted grass and just cleaned up the yard a ton! We had a huge pile of trees weeds and other stuff to burn. I kept telling Dev that we need to burn it before we put in the VINYL fence up. And this is what he would say to me, "dear I'm a fire fighter, trust me its fine" I did how ever talk him into hauling some of it off. So when the day came to burn it all he took his GAS can and little liter out there and lit the pile on firer and most of HIS leg hairs! Our vinyl fence started to melt, so my job for the day about 6 hours or so was to water down the fence! The pile burned for 2 days and a week later when it started raining it begun smoking again, so under all the ash its still hot! And as for Devin's leg hair, he ended up shaving from his knees down. Oh well at least the yard looks better:)

Friends

A couple of weeks ago Amber was in town, She just had her sweet little Tyce in June. It was so fun to get together with Amber and Sheridan and catch up on everything and to laugh about the "old days" We always have so much fun together! We tried to get some pictures with our kids but it didn't work out so well. Trying to get a newborn, a 6 month old and a 1 year old to cooperate is HARD! Thanks girls for the fun! Can't wait for the next time!

Conner, Tyce and Chandler

Cottonwood

a bit of an update!

Well over the 4th of July weekend they Whole Hunt Family was able to get together. It was cool to see everyone and get pictures together, we haven't done that for about 13 years!

After ward we went to the show low fire works, Devin was covering for Show Low fire since they sets off the fire works, they had a huge BBQ, They got a call but made it back right before the fire works. Conner wasn't to sure what to think of the Fire works they would go off and he would watch them and then look at us, like what are those, we just kept clapping and saying yahhhh, He decided they were boring and slept through most of them!

Then the following night we went to the Taylor Fire works, It was so funny Conner and Aaden where playing on the grass together, when the light s went off Conner just kept playing then all of a sudden the first fire work went off and Conner frozen momentarily and then leaped into our arms. Aaden scrambled under the blanket and said, "mommy me scared!" It was so cute, Both boys were asleep with in the first 5 minutes!

Happy 4th of July every one!!!!

Over the past 2 weeks we have been watching Kenz play all stars, Their team won district in Taylor and are now playing for state in Cottonwood. The girls have been doing really good, Kenz has been sick and throwing up but she still gets out there and plays... what a trooper! Tomorrow they play for championship if they win its on to Nationals in Vancouver WA!!!! I tried to add a slide show but it keeps giving me a HTML error!

Devin and I also had our 5 year anniversary. He has been out on a wild land assignment in CA for 8 days and made it home the day of our anniversary! The last 5 years have flown by I'm so grateful for the amazing husband and father Devin is. Love you babe!

And last of all here are some fire pictures from CA. Devin brought back a pine cone that is over 17 inches long! It is the biggest pine cone I've ever seen! Here is Devin with the crew he went with Dennis, Devin, Kerry and Craig

Called to serve

Over the past week we have spent a lot of time with Devins Grandma and Grandpa West, They have been called to serve a mission in the Philippians. We are all so excited for them and grateful for the wonderful example they always set for us! This is a picture of our last good bye to them as the get ready to head to security. I wish I had pictures of are ride to the airport. They Whole family decided to see them off at the airport. So that means that we had a lot of cars following each other, it was so funny to see everyone try to make it throw all the lights and keep up! When we left Dave and Raelynns house it reminded me of the movie, Home Alone, when they all wake up late an rush out the door! That was us:-) Thanks again to Dave and Raelynn for letting us crash your house, we had so much fun visiting, shipping and swimming! And to Austin for the great breakfast!